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Towards a Geography of Culture: Culture Occupations Across the Canadian Urban-Rural Divide
"Over the past several years, increasing attention has been paid to the expanding role that culture plays in the urban economy. Recent work emphasizes the role of the culture sector for encouraging economic growth, urban renewal and improving a city’s quality of life."
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Studies & Reports 1 of 7
"For this study, Canada was divided into 399 geographic areas, which we refer to as "geographies." They include Census Metropolitan Areas (CMAs), Census Agglomerations (CAs) and the rural portions of Census Districts (CDs). CMAs have a population greater than 100,000 and are referred to as large cities while CAs have a population greater than 10,000 and are referred to as small cities. This study uses data from the 2001 Census. We defined 48 occupations as cultural in nature. These include writers, artists, designers, and a variety of culture-related technical and manufacturing occupations. We calculated the total number of culture workers across all 48 culture occupations for each CMA, CA and rural region. This allowed us to determine the proportion of each geography's workforce employed in culture occupations. We found that 32 geographies had higher shares of culture workers than the national average, and we refer to these as "culture clusters." The clusters range in size from big cities to small rural areas and are listed in the paper."
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